![]() “Is it normal to fly so close?” one of them, Panchito Abal, asked his friend Nando Parrado. Then the plane hit a second air pocket, and dropped some more-and now, suddenly, as it fell beneath the cloud cover, the passengers could see a mountain face just 10 or 20 feet away. Most of the 45 on board were in their late teens and early 20s, members of a team traveling to play an exhibition in Chile, and they whooped and hollered when their chartered plane hit turbulence over the Andes and dropped several hundred feet. How they survived has inspired both admiration and horror.Īs the plane encountered its first signs of trouble, none of the passengers panicked. ![]() We will then contact you with the appropriate action.On October 13, 1972, a chartered twin engine plane carrying an Uruguayan rugby team crash landed high in the Andes mountains.
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